Not directly in Observium, but you can easily pre-filter them in the syslog-ng (or rsyslog) config, by simply not passing in, or blackholing, anything coming in at that level.
For syslog-ng, the relevant section of documentation is at
syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.16 - Administration Guide. It should be fairly straightforward to follow.
The equivalent rsyslog documentation is at
RSyslog Documentation - rsyslog and… well, good luck understanding that, I certainly don’t.
-Adam
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From: Lars Joergensen via observium <observium@lists.observium.org>
Sent: January 13, 2023 12:49 PM
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Cc: Lars Joergensen <DKLARJ@chr-hansen.com>
Subject: [Observium] Ignore priority 7 syslog
Hi
Some unfortunate soul enabled BGP debugging on a device and then forgot all about it.
I’m now trying to delete 76 million records from the syslog database..
Is there a way to ignore syslog messages with priority 7 in the syslog import in Observium? It’ll probably happen again someday.
Lars
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